The Qiang people were in turmoil, and Zhuge Liang was not surprised.

Since the beginning of the second year of Jianxing, after Ma Chao died of illness, the Qiang people have not been very peaceful, coupled with the two-year snow disaster, the Qiang people can't live, and it is normal to make trouble.

But Zhuge Liang didn't expect that this time the Qiang people in Qinzhou would gather 100,000 people, and Jiang Xu, who was fighting, could only stick to Tianshui County in the end and ask for help.

Although the Qiang people are strong in battle, they are also relative to other foreign races, and for the Han people, the Qiang people are the weak side after all.

And within the Qiang people, there is no common leader with prestige, and there is no possibility of unifying the combat power of the Qiang tribe. made such a big noise, which was indeed beyond Zhuge Liang's expectations.

The most important thing is that the Qiang people are in such a mess, which completely breaks Zhuge Liang's national policy of recuperation.

Small fights can be used to suppress and appease the strategy, but such a large-scale rebellion and looting Dahanzhou County, it is a matter that must be fought first, and then consider pacifying. Otherwise, the great Han Tianwei will not exist.

So the key question is still this - how to quell this Qiang rebellion.

Because of the instability of Guan Yu's condition, Jingzhou is temporarily unable to control the overall situation, and is in a chaotic period of power transfer.

To this day, the relationship between Soochow and the Han Dynasty is still semi-hostile and cannot be taken lightly.

On the Yongzhou side, since Cao Ei succeeded to the throne, the harassment of Yongzhou has intensified, which shows that this Cao Ei, at least in terms of strategic vision, does not have to be weak as his father Cao Pi, and may even be stronger.

Once Cao Wei and Eastern Wu learned of the rebellion of the Qiang people in Qinzhou, they would inevitably choose to take advantage of the fire to rob, so the troops of Yongzhou and Jingzhou not only could not be mobilized, but on the contrary, they had to inform Zhang Xi and Xu Shu to strengthen their vigilance.

At the same time, from the standpoint of the Great Han, this rebellion must also be quelled as soon as possible, and it cannot be delayed for too long, otherwise it will affect the current national policy of the Great Han to recuperate.

Not to mention, there is also a chariot general urging the Northern Expedition within the Han Dynasty, if too much money, food and time are wasted on the Qiang people, so Zhang Fei will definitely not give up easily if the process of the Northern Expedition is delayed.

The external environment is such that Zhuge Liang must quickly quell the Qiang rebellion, and at the same time, he cannot call in too many troops.

And the internal environment. Zhuge Liang went back and forth in Chengdu, but found that today's Chengdu lacks suitable generals who can take command of the battle.

Zhang Fei can, but the problem is that Zhang Fei is already in his sixties and cannot afford to lose.

Furthermore, there is no problem for you to let Zhang Fei lead the army to quell the rebellion, but after the war, you have to stabilize the place and pacify the stability of the Qiang people, which is not what Zhang Fei is good at.

If you wait another two months, when Li Hui, the governor of Yu, returns to Chengdu from Nanzhong, Li Hui can lead the army.

Li Hui has many years of experience in sitting in local areas and pacifying the Yi people, and his military command ability has also been tested in actual combat, so he is a good candidate for counterinsurgency commander.

But. Li Hui is a native of Jianning, he has the advantage of connections in the south and adapts to the local climate, so he is indeed a good candidate, but the northwest is different.

Li Hui's health has not been very good in the past few years, and if he is allowed to lead troops northward by a southerner, not to mention whether he can quell the rebellion, or whether he can adapt to the local climate is a question.

Again, it will take two months for Li Hui to return to Chengdu, and it will take a month on the way to send troops.

With such a delay back and forth, it will be at least half a year slower, and I don't know if Jiang Xu can hold on in Tianshui County.

Wu Yi. Wu Yi controls the southern army and guards the Son of Heaven, and he can't easily leave the left of the Son of Heaven, unless the Son of Heaven drives the expedition in person, he is not suitable to lead the army.

The rest of the others are just Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Fu Wei, Yang Qun and the like, who can be generals, but not handsome.

The Qiang people are in turmoil, which is actually not a big deal, but judging from the current situation, Zhuge Liang is really a little undecided for a while.

Should Jiang Xu stick to Tianshui, survive the winter, and wait until the spring of the next year, when Li Hui returns to Chengdu before sending troops, or will he immediately send troops to rescue and be led by Zhang Fei? !

It's not a perfect decision, and each has its own shortcomings.

Zhuge Liang has already discussed the strategy with Fa Zheng and Pang Tong, and these two insist on a quick counterinsurgency, and Zhuge Liang also agrees with this.

But who is the handsome, Fa Zheng and Pang Tong don't have any good ideas.

Even Pang Tong looked anxious, and said that if he really couldn't do it, he would let him take command and go out to Sichuan, but he also followed the first emperor all the way into Sichuan, although he didn't take charge alone, but he always had experience in military formations.

As soon as Pang Tong said this, Fa Zheng's eyes suddenly lit up.

It's not that Fa Zheng agrees with Pang Tong's idea, if Pang Tong's experience can be regarded as leading the troops as a commander, then he who has experienced the battle of Hanzhong, can't he also say that he has experience in leading the troops? !

Fa Zheng is not so devoid of military common sense, being a staff officer and being a commander are two different concepts.

Therefore, he did not agree with the idea of Pang Tong taking command of the expedition.

But Fa Zheng thought of someone.

In that year, the first emperor entered Sichuan, and the troops blocked the city, and there was such a person who led the Jingzhou army into Sichuan to help, and pushed all the way to the counties of Yizhou, completing the complete encirclement of Chengdu.

Well, I'm talking about Zhuge Liang.

In fact, if you really want to talk about the experience of leading troops alone, Fa Zheng thinks that Zhuge Liang's rescue in Sichuan is the real sense of being alone as a commander.

But the problem is that now Zhuge Liang is the prime minister, and he shoulders the heavy responsibility of leading the government, and he is the most unsuitable candidate to lead the army.

One more. Is Zhuge Liang really willing to leave Chengdu and go north to quell the rebellion?!

You must know that in Chengdu, Zhuge Liang is the head of the ministers, and his prestige is increasing.

Once the northern expedition is made, the smooth operation of the war will only add some prestige to Zhuge Liang's administration, but once the war does not go well and the Qiang soldiers cannot be pacified quickly, the blow to Zhuge Liang's prestige will also be very big.

Zhuge Liang didn't need to take this risk at all.

Therefore, although Fa Zheng thought about it, he still did not open his mouth and said the truest thoughts in his heart.

But the problem is, Zhuge Liang is not stupid.

Pang Tong's words can not only inspire Fazheng, Zhuge Liang also thought of some of his early experience in commanding troops.

If you really want to say that you are commanding tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, in Chengdu today, except for Zhang Fei, you have experience.

And those worries of Fazheng, to tell the truth, Zhuge Liang has no worries at all.

Only the powerful ministers who have bad intentions will want to sit still in the capital and control all the power. Neither the historical Zhuge Liang nor the current Zhuge Liang have this idea.

In terms of government affairs, it can be entrusted to Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, Dong He, Qin Mi and others, plus the assistance of Zhang Yi, it should not be a big problem.

To quell the rebellion of the Qiang people, what is required is a quick victory, as long as you can enter the army smoothly, the difficulty of fighting the Qiang people is actually not more difficult than entering Sichuan back then.

What's more, as long as you lead the troops into Guanzhong, Li Yan in Hanzhong, Zhao Yun in Liangzhou, and even Zhang Xi in Guanzhong can become your own help, even if you can't mobilize all of them to quell the rebellion, but at least you can have someone to help you with your staff, which can greatly reduce the risk caused by your lack of experience in leading troops.

Finally, and the most important one, Zhuge Liang himself also wants to accumulate experience in the military formation.

The Central Plains is too far away from Shudi, and in the future Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, Zhuge Liang, as the prime minister, will not be able to sit in Chengdu all the time.

In today's era, the communication efficiency is low, whether it is the Northern Expedition from Guanzhong or the Northern Expedition from Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang must have an overview of the overall situation of the Northern Expedition.

Therefore, at that time, Zhuge Liang will definitely lead the army to the north, and may even have to come to Guanzhong in person to make a decision.

And once the Central Plains is attacked, this is one of the core areas of Cao Wei, Cao Wei has been operating for many years, the Han lacks geographical advantages and human advantages, and the fault tolerance rate is even lower, so Zhuge Liang is not allowed to use such a major event as the Northern Expedition to practice.

It just so happens that this time he can take the opportunity of the Qiang people to practice his hands, so as not to behave in a hurry when he really needs the Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang will behave at a loss and delay the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

After thinking about it, Zhuge Liang finally decided that Fa Zheng would sit in Chengdu, assist the Son of Heaven to act as the government, and Zhang Fei would stay behind to control the Southern Army and protect the safety of the Son of Heaven.

He personally led the troops to the expedition, worshiped Pang Tong as the military division, took Wu Yi as the front governor, led Zhang Nan, Feng Xi, Fu Wei, Jiang Wei, Ma Jian and other generals, marched into Hanzhong, and went north to quell the rebellion.

When the news came out, everyone was shocked.

No one expected that the dignified prime minister of the Han Dynasty would personally lead the troops to the expedition for the sake of a local Hu rebellion. It's too Meng Lang.

What if something goes wrong?!

Inevitably, some courtiers came to visit in person and persuaded Zhuge Liang to give up the idea of going on the expedition, although there were many people who really felt that Zhuge Liang was too reckless, such as Dong He, Yu Tuo and others, they felt that Zhuge Liang, as the prime minister, left the government work behind, and suddenly led the troops to fight the rebellion, which was putting the cart before the horse.

But there are also some people who are somewhat selfish, such as Qin Mi and Qian Zhou.

The people of Yizhou are really a little afraid, afraid that this time Zhuge Liang will go on an expedition in person, there will be a bad omen.

In the past two years, Zhuge Liang stood on the side of the Yizhou family and supported the national policy proposal of the Yizhou family to recuperate, giving the Yizhou family a chance to breathe.

This time, Zhuge Liang actually personally led the troops to quell the rebellion, does this mean that Zhuge Liang has given up the national policy of recuperation and recuperation, and has begun to support the strategy of foreign conquest? !

This is not good news for the Yizhou family, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and I haven't had time to make money, so I have to pay again?!

Therefore, Qin Mi and Qian Zhou's exhortations were somewhat selfish, wanting to test Zhuge Liang's attitude.

These people, whether out of public or selfish intentions, were blocked by Zhuge Liang.

In this matter, Zhuge Liang has reached an agreement with Fa Zheng and Pang Tong, and has successfully persuaded Zhang Fei, obtained Zhang Fei's consent, and gave the tiger talisman of the Northern Army. Then it doesn't matter what the opinion of the rest is.

It's imperative.

In this way, in late October of the fourth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang sent troops in Chengdu, led 30,000 Han Northern Army to the north, first entered Hanzhong, and joined Li Yan's troops in Hanzhong, and entered Guanzhong north to pacify the Qiang rebellion.

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